“The Russians are like us, they look and act like us. They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well. As far as I am concerned, they can have whatever they want just so they don't try to impose their system on others.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“A socialist revolution does not mean that interests of certain sectors are eliminated without consideration. The interests of the big landholders, bankers, and industrialists were eliminated. No social interest of the lesser levels of society is to be condemned. The revolution will adhere to its wor…”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“Basically, the revolution has already passed its measures. Nobody need worry. Why not join in this enthusiasm, in this prowess? Why are there still Cubans bothered by this happiness? I asked myself that while watching the parade. Why are some Cubans so incapable of understanding that his happiness c…”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“Art, culture, university professions, opportunities, honors, elegant clothes were only the privilege of a small minority, a minority represented today with that grace and humor shown by some worker federations in their imitations of the rich. It is astounding to think that today more than 20,000 ath…”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without a t…”— Fidel Castro, cbsnews.com
“Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism. It seemed to be a sure fact, as well-known as the el…”— Fidel Castro, walterlippmann.com
“All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and I truly revere Marx, Engels…”— Fidel Castro, walterlippmann.com
“The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“We shall take care that never again in Germany, the heart of Europe, will the Jewish-Bolshevistic revolution of subhumans be able to be kindled either from within or through emissaries from without.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“It is a war of ideologies and struggle between races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood. It is worth the world as we want to see: beautiful, orderly, fair, socially, a world that may be, still suffers some flaws, but overall a happy,…”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.”— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org
“I must give some attention to the delicate question of religion, on which I have touched already. In my father's generation this question still was discussed with passion. Since then a sort of truce has existed in the countries of the West, while in the communist states of the East atheism has been…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“Poverty is probably the greatest asset the Communists have. Wherever it exists, anyplace in the world, you have a potential Communist breeding ground. It figures that if a man is frustrated in a material sense, his family hungry, he suffers, he broods and he becomes susceptible to the blandishments…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? It's the order of events, In Capitalism the dad goes missing and then kids report, while in Communism kids report then dad goes missing.”— NYashchuk2_HAZ3, reddit.com
“Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly…”— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org
“Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.”— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lo…”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians i…”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.”— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org